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What’s behind the Trump Bump
Maggie Gallagher 23 hours ago

Obama Has Failed to Bridge the Partisan Divide
Jonah Goldberg July 24, 2015
The Price of Fetal Parts
Aborting infants and selling the pieces takes a toll on practitioners’ souls.
Charles Krauthammer July 23, 2015
“Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you.” — Barack Obama, address to Planned Parenthood, April 26, 2013 Planned Parenthood’s reaction to the release of a secretly recorded conversation about the sale of fetal body parts was highly revealing. After protesting that it
What Kerry and Obama Tried to Keep from Congress and the Public: Iran Will Collect Its Own Samples for the IAEA

Fred Fleitz 23 hours ago
This week brought the stunning news that Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and Representative Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) had discovered, during a meeting with IAEA officials, the existence of secret side deal between the IAEA and Tehran — a side
Hillary’s Inconceivably Stupid Capital-Gains Tax Scheme

Larry Kudlow 7 hours ago
If investment is the problem ailing the economy, what does Hillary Clinton go out and do? She proposes jacking up the tax on investment. It’s almost inconceivably stupid.
Planned Parenthood and ‘Black Lives Matter’ Divide Democrats
Michael Barone July 24, 2015

America’s two major political parties have a difficult task: amassing a 51-percent coalition in a nation that has always been — not just now, but from the beginning — regionally, religiously, racially, and ethnically diverse. George W. Bush’s
Americans Understand Iran a Lot Better than John Kerry Does
David Harsanyi 23 hours ago

At a Tehran mosque last week, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — amid chants of “death to America” and “death to Israel” — explained to a crowd that his nation’s interests are “180 degrees” in opposition to the United States. “Even after
Public Support for Republicans Has Dipped — Here’s How They Should Respond
Fred Bauer 12 hours ago

A new report from Pew finding a nine-point drop in the public approval of the GOP has Republican consultants wailing and Democrats rubbing their hands together with glee. In late 2014, the Republicans and Democrats were closer to parity, but now 16
Will Obama Allow ISIS to Have Chemical Weapons, Too?
Lamont Colucci 23 hours ago

It has been well documented that the Assad regime in Syria used chemical weapons against its own people before and after the agreement in which it promised to give them up. President Obama famously proclaimed a “red line” that was
Trump’s Disturbing Rise Shows Political Intemperance Isn’t Limited to the Left
Mona Charen July 24, 2015

The Trump bump tells us something about the state of American politics. Progressives are panting to interpret his surge as evidence of Republicans’ black hearts. Some Trump supporters have suggested that his success, such as it is/was (this is
The Government’s Dishonest Defense of Obamacare’s Contraceptive Mandate
Noel J. Francisco Francisco & Pohl 23 hours ago

Linda Greenhouse’s column in yesterday’s New York Times paints a dramatically distorted picture of the religious-liberty challenges that various nonprofit religious groups have brought against the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate. The nonprofit plaintiffs in these cases — faith-based
Why the Little Sisters of the Poor Have Gone to the Supreme Court
NR Interview 14 hours ago

On Thursday, July 23, the Little Sisters of the Poor, women religious who dedicate their lives to Jesus Christ and the service of the elderly poor, went to the Supreme Court of the United States for the second time for religious-liberty
The Price of Fetal Parts
Aborting infants and selling the pieces takes a toll on practitioners’ souls.
Charles Krauthammer July 23, 2015
“Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you.” — Barack Obama, address to Planned Parenthood, April 26, 2013 Planned Parenthood’s reaction to the release of a secretly recorded conversation about the sale of fetal body parts was highly revealing. After protesting that it
What’s behind the Trump Bump
Maggie Gallagher 23 hours ago
The good news is that we have a GOP front-runner. The bad news is that his name is Donald Trump. The latest ABC News poll shows Trump at 24 percent, eleven points ahead of number-two Walker, and twelve ahead of number-three
Obama Has Failed to Bridge the Partisan Divide
Jonah Goldberg July 24, 2015
Surely this wasn’t what Barack Obama had in mind. One need not revisit the mountains of purple prose that greeted Obama’s ascent to the White House (or his descent, given the Olympian esteem in which many held him).
What Kerry and Obama Tried to Keep from Congress and the Public: Iran Will Collect Its Own Samples for the IAEA
Fred Fleitz 23 hours ago

This week brought the stunning news that Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and Representative Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) had discovered, during a meeting with IAEA officials, the existence of secret side deal between the IAEA and Tehran — a side
Hillary’s Inconceivably Stupid Capital-Gains Tax Scheme
Larry Kudlow 7 hours ago

If investment is the problem ailing the economy, what does Hillary Clinton go out and do? She proposes jacking up the tax on investment. It’s almost inconceivably stupid.
Planned Parenthood and ‘Black Lives Matter’ Divide Democrats

Michael Barone July 24, 2015
America’s two major political parties have a difficult task: amassing a 51-percent coalition in a nation that has always been — not just now, but from the beginning — regionally, religiously, racially, and ethnically diverse. George W. Bush’s
Americans Understand Iran a Lot Better than John Kerry Does

David Harsanyi 23 hours ago
At a Tehran mosque last week, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — amid chants of “death to America” and “death to Israel” — explained to a crowd that his nation’s interests are “180 degrees” in opposition to the United States. “Even after
Public Support for Republicans Has Dipped — Here’s How They Should Respond

Fred Bauer 12 hours ago
A new report from Pew finding a nine-point drop in the public approval of the GOP has Republican consultants wailing and Democrats rubbing their hands together with glee. In late 2014, the Republicans and Democrats were closer to parity, but now 16
Will Obama Allow ISIS to Have Chemical Weapons, Too?
Lamont Colucci 23 hours ago

It has been well documented that the Assad regime in Syria used chemical weapons against its own people before and after the agreement in which it promised to give them up. President Obama famously proclaimed a “red line” that was
Trump’s Disturbing Rise Shows Political Intemperance Isn’t Limited to the Left
Mona Charen July 24, 2015

The Trump bump tells us something about the state of American politics. Progressives are panting to interpret his surge as evidence of Republicans’ black hearts. Some Trump supporters have suggested that his success, such as it is/was (this is
The Government’s Dishonest Defense of Obamacare’s Contraceptive Mandate
Noel J. Francisco Francisco & Pohl 23 hours ago

Linda Greenhouse’s column in yesterday’s New York Times paints a dramatically distorted picture of the religious-liberty challenges that various nonprofit religious groups have brought against the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate. The nonprofit plaintiffs in these cases — faith-based
Why the Little Sisters of the Poor Have Gone to the Supreme Court
NR Interview 14 hours ago

On Thursday, July 23, the Little Sisters of the Poor, women religious who dedicate their lives to Jesus Christ and the service of the elderly poor, went to the Supreme Court of the United States for the second time for religious-liberty
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Appeasing Iran Ignores the Lessons of History
Victor Davis Hanson July 23, 2015
The now-concluded Iran nuclear negotiations predictably reflect ancient truths of appeasement. While members of the Obama administration are high-fiving each other over a deal with the Iranian theocracy, they should remember unchanging laws that will surely haunt the United States
The F-35: Throwing Good Money after Bad

Mike Fredenburg July 22, 2015
The F-35 program could cripple U.S. defense for decades to come.
Paying Attention to Black Lives

Armond White 15 hours ago
Two impressions from the first scene of Southpaw: 1) The close-up of Jake Gyllenhaal as white boxer Billy Hope makes him look dark-skinned — a way-late wigger figure who struts, curses, and imitates the limited outlook of black street thugs. 2) Hope’
¿Se Habla Ann Coulter?

Jay Nordlinger July 23, 2015
Ann Coulter is bold, brash, provocative, talented, fearless, witty, and outrageous. If she were on the left, she’d be lionized. (Lionessized?) She’d be widely regarded as an adornment to society. But she is not on the left. She
The Iran Deal Will Have Disastrous Non-Nuclear Consequences, Too

Ted R. Bromund July 23, 2015
So far, the most intense criticism of the Obama administration’s deal with Iran has focused on its wildly imbalanced nuclear provisions, under which, in exchange for limited inspections, Iran gets to keep many of its centrifuges, its entire nuclear
Holocaust-Denying Professor Suggests That Cosby’s Accusers May Have Just Been ‘Sluts’

Katherine Timpf July 23, 2015
A tenured, Holocaust-denying professor at taxpayer-funded Lincoln University in Pennsylvania suggested that Bill Cosby’s accusers may have waited so long to report their attacks because “many women are sluts.” On July 8, English professor Kaukab Siddique posted a list
Stop the Streaming Tax
Samuel A. Rosado July 23, 2015

Not content with making explicit attacks on Uber, AirBnB, and the “sharing economy” as a whole, Democrats have launched an even more egregious attack on something that rivals sex, alcohol, and food on Millennials’ “can’t survive without” lists: streaming
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s New Book Betrays a Toxic Worldview
Rich Lowry July 24, 2015

Moses gave us the Ten Commandments. Paul gave us the Epistles. And Ta-Nehisi gave us Between the World and Me. The new book by Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, in the form of a letter to his son, has been greeted
Apparently, Medieval-Themed Video Games ‘Legitimize’ ‘White Supremacy’
Katherine Timpf July 22, 2015

If you like playing medieval-themed video games, you might not be just some harmless nerd — you might be a nerd who is also kind of a white supremacist. At least that’s the opinion of Victoria Cooper, a Ph.
IAEA Tells Congressmen of Two Secret Side Deals to Iran Agreement That Won’t Be Shared with Congress
Fred Fleitz July 22, 2015

Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and Congressmen Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) issued a press release yesterday on a startling discovery they made during a July 17 meeting with International Atomic Energy Agency officials in Vienna: There are two secret side deals
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Planned Parenthood Has Handed GOP Candidates a Gift — They’re Running with It
The era of Todd Akin-ism may be over.
Ian Tuttle July 23, 2015
Abortion is back in the news in a big way, thanks to two harrowing videos from the Center for Medical Progress. It turns out there is such a thing as bad publicity — for example, the revelation that your taxpayer-subsidized “
The Trump Lesson That Bush and Clinton Should Heed

Jonah Goldberg July 22, 2015
For those of us who predicted the inevitable, watching Donald Trump verbally wander into a field of face-whacking garden rakes like Sideshow Bob inspires a mixture of schadenfreude and affirmation. We knew it was coming, but it still feels good
Rick Perry Compares Trump to Cancer, Know-Nothings, and Joe McCarthy in Double-Barreled D.C. Speech

Brendan Bordelon July 22, 2015
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry ratcheted up his assault on rival GOP hopeful Donald Trump another notch during a speech in Washington, D.C. today, calling the ex-reality TV star “a cancer on conservatism,” comparing his views on Mexican immigrants
Evaluating the Lee-Rubio Tax Plan

Ramesh Ponnuru July 22, 2015
Of the top three candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, judging from the RealClearPolitics average of national polls, only one has released a detailed tax plan: Marco Rubio, the senator from Florida. Not surprisingly, then, his proposal — made along
Donald Trump and Jeremy Corbyn Are Running the Same Con on Voters

Tom Rogan July 22, 2015
“Think of a wonderful thought, any merry little thought. Think of Christmas, think of snow, think of sleigh bells off you go, like reindeer in the sky! You can fly! you can fly! you can fly!” — Peter Pan (Disney, 1953) The
Bernie’s Strange Brew of Nationalism and Socialism

Kevin D. Williamson July 20, 2015
Editor’s Note: The following article is adapted from one that ran in the July 6, 2015, issue of National Review. Marshalltown, Iowa — “All foreign-made vehicles park in designated area in rear of building.” So reads the sign in front of United
John Kasich’s Presidential Campaign Is Already Facing Its First Big Test
Alexis Levinson July 21, 2015

Columbus, Ohio — Governor John Kasich has 16 days to earn a spot on the debate stage in his back yard in Cleveland. And he has six months to make himself a factor in the GOP presidential primary. Over 42 minutes on Tuesday
Iowa’s Democratic Establishment Is Unmoved by ‘Bernie-Mentum’
Brendan Bordelon July 18, 2015

The anticipation among the press corps was palpable before Martin O’Malley had even finished his speech. The five presidential hopefuls at Friday’s Iowa Democratic Hall of Fame dinner were speaking in alphabetical order, and reporters who hadn’t
Walker’s Reforms Have Benefited Workers
Deroy Murdock July 20, 2015

Hillary Rodham Clinton shed her usual sunny demeanor last week and snarled at Republicans in general and one presidential candidate in particular. “Republican governors like Scott Walker have made their names stomping on workers’ rights, and practically all Republican candidates
Obama and Trump: Two of a Kind
Victor Davis Hanson July 21, 2015

President Obama is said to feel liberated, in the sense that he can finally say what, and do as, he pleases — without much worry any more over political ramifications, including presidential and congressional elections. Obama’s lame-duck presidency has
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Obama Fires AFFH Warning Shot Over Hillary’s House
Stanley Kurtz July 23, 2015
THE CORNER: Hillary Clinton’s suburban hometown of Chappaqua, New York has just become ground zero in the Obama administration’ s efforts to nullify local control over America’s housing.
The Latest Campus Microaggression — Buildings Named After Rich White Guys

Jennifer Kabbany July 23, 2015
PHI BETA CONS: Yes, the leftist lexicon grows with this latest example, which has apparently been around for a few years but only recently caught the attention of campus watchdogs.
Atticus Vindicated!

July 23, 2015
POSTMODERN CONSERVATIVE: I actually hate that title. Heroes don’t need to be vindicated. But maybe the “vindication studies” brand has caught on.
All the Illegals Get to Stay

Mark Krikorian July 23, 2015
THE CORNER: This is important because new illegals keep coming even as old ones stop being illegal.
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Look Who’s Coddling Denver’s Social-Justice Jerks

‘All cops are bastards!” “F**k cops!” “This is what white supremacy looks like!” On a tranquil Sunday afternoon in Denver, hate-mongering zealots hijacked a rally held by citizens and ...
Mona Charen
@monachareneppc

Trump’s Disturbing Rise Shows Political Intemperance Isn’t Limited to the Left

The Trump bump tells us something about the state of American politics. Progressives are panting to interpret his surge as evidence of Republicans’ black hearts. Some Trump supporters have suggested ...
Michael Barone
@michaelbarone

Planned Parenthood and ‘Black Lives Matter’ Divide Democrats

America’s two major political parties have a difficult task: amassing a 51-percent coalition in a nation that has always been — not just now, but from the beginning — ...
Charles Krauthammer
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The Price of Fetal Parts

“Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you.” — Barack Obama, address to Planned Parenthood, April 26, 2013 Planned Parenthood’s reaction to the release of a secretly recorded conversation about the sale of ...
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The Left Doesn’t Care Whether Minimum-Wage Laws Actually Help the Less Fortunate

There is no way to know what is going on in someone else’s mind. But sometimes his behavior tells you more than his words. The political Left’s great ...
Dennis Prager
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The Iran Deal Appeases the Greatest Evil of Our Time

We say that evil is dark. But this metaphor is imprecise. Evil is actually intensely bright. So painfully bright that people look away from it. Many even deny its existence. #...
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Carly Campaigns
Jay Nordlinger -1376367 seconds ago

Manchester, N.H. — According to the longstanding cliché, presidential candidates campaign in “the snows of New Hampshire.” But they also campaign the summer before, and even the spring before. Carly Fiorina is logging some serious New Hampshire time here
Tehran Triumphant
Elliott Abrams -1376362 seconds ago

With the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) by Iran, the United States, Russia, China, and three European countries (France, the U.K., and Germany), the action shifts to Capitol Hill. Congress will now devote part of
‘Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay’
John O'Sullivan -1376363 seconds ago

In the recent debate over whether to bail out Greece, Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany’s conservative finance minister, and Alexis Tsipras, Greece’s radical-Left prime minister, were at opposite ends of the spectrum. Schäuble designed the rejected “temporary Grexit”
The Art of the Grotesque
Kevin D. Williamson -1376368 seconds ago

Oh, you’re goddamned right this is Vegas, baby! because the Planet Hollywood Las Vegas Resort and Casino is the only truly appropriate venue for a show like the one we have right here. For your consideration: the carefully coiffed
Literature, Patriarchy, and Plath
Sarah Ruden -1376372 seconds ago

Perhaps the best-known literary feminist cri de coeur is Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1929), which lamented women’s dependent state and projected that female writers, granted education, personal space, and independent income, would give the men
The Decathlete and the Pugilist
Peter Tonguette -1376375 seconds ago

Imagine, if you can, Ted Kennedy tipping his hat to Allan Bloom. Or Tip O’Neill honoring the legacy of Lionel Trilling. Or Norman Thomas being an avid reader of Ayn Rand. Impossible, isn’t it? At times, the notion
Is Sex Necessary?
Ross Douthat -1376377 seconds ago

Of all the possible career moves for a rising movie star, or the possible critical-commercial sweet spots for a filmmaker, I’m not sure that “male-stripper movie” would have occurred to many people before 2012, when Channing Tatum and Steven Soderbergh